TCLB is a MPI+CUDA, MPI+CPU or MPI+HIP high-performance Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation code, based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method. It provides a clear interface for calculation of complex physics, and the implementation of new models.
Stable release (master
branch):
Current release (develop
branch):
Install
git clone https://github.com/CFD-GO/TCLB.git
cd TCLB
Configure
make configure
./configure
Compile
make d2q9
Run
CLB/d2q9/main example/flow/2d/karman.xml
The documentation (including tutorials) is published at docs.tclb.io.
For the develop
version, the most recent documentation can be found at
develop.docs.tclb.io.
You can contribute to the documentation at CFD-GO/TCLB_docs.
This code is designed to run on Linux with CUDA. We strongly recommend using Linux for compilation, computation and postprocessing.
Nevertheless, TCLB can be compiled on Windows using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, with CUDA supported on some system configurations (see nVidia's website for more info). It also can be compiled on MacOS (CPU only). Both Debian and Red Hat based Linux distributions are supported by the install.sh
script described below, as is MacOS (with brew
package manager).
For the code to compile and work you'll need a few things:
Optionally, you may need:
You can install many of these with the provided tools/install.sh
script (note that this requires sudo):
sudo tools/install.sh essentials # Installs essential system packages needed by TCLB
sudo tools/install.sh r # Installs R
sudo tools/install.sh openmpi # Installs OpenMPI
tools/install.sh rdep # Installs needed R packages
sudo tools/install.sh cuda # Installs CUDA (we recommend to do it on your own)
sudo tools/install.sh python-dev # Installs Python libraries with headers
You can run the tools/install.sh
script with the --dry
option, which will print the commands to run, so you can run them on your own.
We do not recommend running anything with sudo without checking
develop
Branch:If you want a more recent version, you could try the development branch with git checkout develop
To compile the code for CPU, you can use the --disable-cuda
option for ./configure
:
./configure --disable-cuda
To compile the code for AMD GPUs (ROCm), you can use the --enable-hip
option for ./configure
:
./configure --enable-hip
To run TCLB in parallel (both on multiple CPU and multiple GPU), you can use the standard syntax of MPI parallel run:
mpirun -np 8 CLB/d2q9/main example/flow/2d/karman.xml
To assist with using TCLB on HPC clusters (SLURM/PBS), there are scripts provided in the TCLB_cluster repository.
TCLB code can be coupled with Discrete Element Method (DEM) codes, to enable computation of flow with particles.
The DEM codes that TCLB can be integrated with are:
Refer to the documentation for instructions on compilation and coupling.
TCLB began development in 2012 with the aim at providing a framework for efficient CFD computations with LBM, mainly for research.
Author: Łukasz Łaniewski-Wołłk
Major contributors:
Contributors:
Developed at:
Please use appropriate citations if using this software in any research publication. The publication should cite the original paper about TCLB and papers which describe the used LBM models. You can find the list of TCLB publications at docs.tclb.io/general-info/publications/. You can also find the information about published articles in the source code of the models. The code can be cited additionally, by its Zenodo DOI.
This software is distributed under the GPL v3 License.
If you need this software under a different license, please contact the main author.
Contact: lukasz.laniewski(monkey)pw.edu.pl